• Hellfire103English
    16•2 months ago

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure System1 divested themselves of it.

    They still own Startpage and Startmail, though.

    • PetriEnglish
      7•2 months ago

      phew and thats how i accidentally discovered just now about Startpage being owned by a marketing company, somehow i missed that news

      From Wikipedia

      In October 2019, Startpage received a significant investment from Privacy One Group, a subsidiary of System1.

      i guess now i will have to pivot search to somewhere else, i went from DuckDuckGo to Startpage years ago now i will look around for something else

      • Jakob Fel
        2•2 months ago

        I switched to Brave Search when I switched to Brave, very pleased with it so far. Its image search isn’t quite as good but otherwise, I haven’t looked back.

        • PetriEnglish
          4•2 months ago

          thanks, i heard and tried it already many times but:

          • I need to self-host (fine for doing it locally but im wary of opening it to access outside the network and be open to external threats since i wouldnt know how to properly handle that so i went for trying to selfhost 4get for being more lightweight)
          • find a trustworthy instance (don’t know how, i dont mind much on what instance i choose for YouTube frontend proxies but for searches i want to be more careful, maybe if there was a search extension to randomize instance between EU-based instances i’d feel more comfortable since its what made me pivot to Startpage years ago as it was purely a EU-based company)
          • @[email protected]
            2•2 months ago

            TROM Search via https://search.trom.tf/?q=%25s will cycle through instances. Sometimes the results suck but you can simply rerun your query. This is what I currently use for everything by default.

            • Petri
              1•1 month ago

              Oh, wow! Thanks so much, sorry for late reply I am deeply grateful for you giving this help*___*